Maybe it's just me, but i'm TOTALLY blown away by how amazing this site is:
www.posemaniacs.com
i mean seriously. i am [if you couldn't figure it out from my gallery] obsessed with drawing humanoid figures, especially male. i LOVE anatomy but i've never had any formal education in the area of anatomy & physiology. i don't have any books to study from either, really, aside from a giant medical encyclopedia [that covers everything from anaphylaxis to z...ygotes] and an old eyewitness type book on the human body. i've got plenty of animal books but none on figure drawing or whatever. and i hadn't really even bothered looking around online to see what i could find. but Ary wrote a journal entry asking for resources and i saw in the comments that somebody linked posemaniacs, and i was like oo what dat. a couple of hours and 4 different drawings later i've already learned SO much. totally bookmarked the site and will be drawing even more naked people than i already do. :DDDD
...people look so much cooler without any skin. GOD though, that site. i'm so in love. if you've never heard of it and you recognize the fact that every artist in the whole world has the capacity for improvement no matter how talented or skilled, click that shit. for the love of god, click it.
i'm not so great at drawing female bodies [drawing girls often bores me; men are so beautiful oh my god], but maybe having this resource will make me do it more. ...maybe not. i don't care oh my god MUSCLES EVERYWHERE. I LOVE ANATOMY. FUUUUCK I'M SO EXCITED. it's like i've just been set loose with $1000 in a candy store. ok maybe not quite that awesome, BUT I'M STILL PRETTY PSYCHED.
oh my god shut up azzy